Chapter 761

The opening ceremony was very simple. Guo Zi, Ding Jiahui, and a third person named Feng Zexuan performed the ribbon-cutting. Everyone took a group photo, ate cake, and then played some simple games.

The atmosphere was quite good, though.

At the end, Ding Jiahui took Song Yao to tour the company, while Guo Zi and Xu Qingzhou took advantage of the free time to gather together, the two of them resting in Guo Zi's office.

"What are you planning to do for the first project?" Xu Qingzhou asked with a smile. Although the office wasn't as big as his own, it was quite cozy; there were even a few dolls in the corner, likely arranged by Ding Jiahui.

"A match-three puzzle game, something similar to Lianliankan or Xiaoxiaole."

Guo Zi poured water for Xu Qingzhou, having already made a clear plan for the company's project.

Xu Qingzhou didn't really know much about the gaming industry, but he did know the two games Guo Zi mentioned. "Isn't the market for games like Lianliankan and Xiaoxiaole already saturated?"

Currently, competitive games were still the most popular.

"Right, Jiahui and I intend to do something different. Our current idea is that it can't be exactly the same as traditional games. For example, the first level is simple, but the second level jumps straight to extreme difficulty to stimulate the player's desire to win."

Xu Qingzhou's expression was somewhat subtle.

With Guo Zi putting it that way, he did have a bit of an impression.

Isn't this just the model of "Sheep a Sheep"? It highlights "challenge" rather than the casual nature of traditional elimination games. The first level is a simple tutorial level with a 100% pass rate, while the second level's difficulty skyrockets, with a pass rate of less than 0.1%, creating a "cliff-like challenge."

Everyone has a gambler's mentality, or rather, everyone is a bit of a masochist; the harder it is, the more they want to play.

Low barrier to entry + high difficulty + ad monetization; it was indeed very popular for a time in his previous life.

"That look on your face—you don't think it'll work?"

Seeing Xu Qingzhou frowning in thought, Guo Zi assumed Xu Qingzhou didn't think highly of it.

Xu Qingzhou smiled. "No, I just think it's quite interesting. When it's finished, send it to us first; we'll help you test it."

Facts proved that Guo Zi and Ding Jiahui's current development was by no means accidental. Their technical skills were naturally beyond reproach, and having gained the favor of investment banks already proved their strength; there was also no problem with their foresight.

"Then I won't refuse. I'm afraid this is the only game in the world that a Nobel Prize-winning big shot will personally participate in testing." Guo Zi laughed.

Guo Zi felt a bit helpless. Although he and Ding Jiahui didn't want to rely on their friend's fame, they also knew that Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao coming over would definitely bring some other things with them.

In the end, they decided to treat it with a normal mindset.

Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao's status determined that many things wouldn't be simple.

If these two just went out for a meal or showed some affection, they might end up on the trending list, and their friends clearly needed to gradually adapt to this.

The opening ceremony was only about 90 minutes long.

After attending the opening ceremony, Xu Qingzhou first dropped Song Yao off at her company, then drove to the research institute himself.

It had been one month since the challenge of the triple product peak, and the institute had pushed forward ignition experiments for quite a few sub-projects.

Moreover, just at the beginning of August, they had successfully completed the maintenance of the Lawson ignition threshold for 360 seconds, but they couldn't be bothered to publicize such a small experiment.

Although the Lawson ignition threshold time was constantly being extended, to make the technology have value for application in a demonstration reactor, systematic verification was still needed, and finally, the net energy gain of the experiment.

And Xu Qingzhou's primary task now was still the upgrade of the divertor.

The institute was simultaneously testing superconducting magnet fatigue, negative triangularity optimization, and thermoelectric conversion efficiency, among other things.

"Professor Xu."

Ren Nan handed the report to Xu Qingzhou.

"This is the latest TBR report."

TBR, or Tritium Breeding Ratio, as mentioned before, the commercialization of controlled nuclear fusion must achieve tritium fuel self-sufficiency to avoid fuel depletion; otherwise, the fusion reactor would rely on external tritium supply, which is extremely costly and unsustainable.